Saving xBox Live content to a pen drive?

d_brennen · 4 Mar 2011 at 20:53

Got given an old xBox 360 (rrod fixed, so probably won't last long) for free from a mate. Tbh I only wanted it to buy a few games off of live and it doesn't have a hard drive. Is it possible to use flash for purchased stuff?

Streeteh · 4 Mar 2011 at 20:55

d_brennen said:
Got given an old xBox 360 (rrod fixed, so probably won't last long) for free from a mate. Tbh I only wanted it to buy a few games off of live and it doesn't have a hard drive. Is it possible to use flash for purchased stuff?

Yep, just make sure the xbox is running on the latest firmware, then plug in the pen drive then... iirc, you go to storage management and partition and format the stick to make it a savable location.

It's been ages since i've done is so sorry for not being more specific.

d_brennen · 4 Mar 2011 at 21:14

Good stuff thanks

glad I don't have to buy a drive only to find it dies!

K1LLSW1TCH · 5 Mar 2011 at 00:20

I think there's a limit on USB storage, something like 15GB per partition, so if you've got like a 200GB USB drive you can just make multiple partitions of 15GB each, not ideal but better than nothing. There might be some programs out there to remove the 15GB limit but I'm not sure.

Vonhelmet · 5 Mar 2011 at 08:28

K1LLSW1TCH said:
I think there's a limit on USB storage, something like 15GB per partition, so if you've got like a 200GB USB drive you can just make multiple partitions of 15GB each, not ideal but better than nothing. There might be some programs out there to remove the 15GB limit but I'm not sure.

I think it's 16GB, and I'm pretty sure you can't partition it multiple times as the XBox does the formatting for you.

orderoftheflame · 5 Mar 2011 at 10:06

You're limited to two USB devices and 16GB of non-system storage on each.

~512mb is reserved for system use on any USB device you format. So, on a 16GB drive, you'll get around 15.5GB usable, on a 32GB drive, you'll get 16GB.

If you connect three devices, only the first two you connected will show up.

It's are both limits put in by Microsoft to prevent people replacing hard drives with masses of USB sticks.

d_brennen · 5 Mar 2011 at 10:18

Nice one. Only want to play a few little games from Live so space shouldn't be a problem. Out of interest, is Live like Steam in that when you buy a game it's always there to redownload?

Streeteh · 5 Mar 2011 at 10:28

d_brennen said:
Out of interest, is Live like Steam in that when you buy a game it's always there to redownload?

Yup. If you sign in on a friends xbox with your account you can also temporarily download it to their xbox too which is a nice feature. It takes a while to transfer accounts to different xboxs over the net though, so if you plan on doing this save your profile to your data stick, much quicker.

orderoftheflame · 5 Mar 2011 at 12:12

d_brennen said:
Nice one. Only want to play a few little games from Live so space shouldn't be a problem. Out of interest, is Live like Steam in that when you buy a game it's always there to redownload?

Yes, but obviously there are limitations that are applied depending on where you download it. Just to stop people taking the pee and downloading games on all their friends consoles.

Going to be lazy and quote myself.

orderoftheflame said:
You get two licences when you purchase content on the Xbox Marketplace.

A console licence - You can play the content on any profile on the original console that the content was downloaded on.

An Live account licence - You can play the content on any console provided that the Live account that purchased the content is signed into Xbox Live.

You can transfer all of the console licences connected to an account to a new Xbox once per year with the "Content Licence Transfer Tool" on the Xbox website.